Yeah I can understand that Custardo! It is very different, and worth checking out once you have had some time. :O)

Yep, I think it's a sign that the book will really stay with you. I finished 'Wolf Hall' a couple of weeks ago and have since heard a rumour that Hilary Mantel is writing a follow up. I am missing Thomas Cromwell and might actually read it again.

Hide & Seek is harrowing, but a good read nonetheless

I couldn't finish the Cutting Room, didn't like her style of writing

no i haven'[t reaqd the purple hebiscus, i really thought about it - but ....in the sam vein as this thread - i kinda don';t want to rea another book of hers for it to be pants! or for it to be the same its like "don't spoil it"

re: the cutting room - there is lots of description - but its just not vivid imagry despite that.

i finished my amy bloom book - mourned it for a xouple of days - i am going to try 'hide & seek' by clare sambrook - sounds a bit harrowing -i'll get the tissues ready.

i felt bereft when i finished the time travellers wife and the gargoyle....

im now ploughing through jasper fforde so ive a few to go at!

Yes, i just finished the Earths Children Series by Jean m. Auel for the tenth time or something, I miss Ayla and Jondalar so much right now. I've lost my copy of Shelters of Stone, and it's not very good anyway so I've finished at Plains of Passage, Iand I feel like part of me is missing, even though I've already immersed myself in The Kings Daughter by Arabella Weir....

oh no! i love the cutting room. what has gone wrong for you non likers?

try this dora damage

Aw, I'm the same. I miss the characters and wish that something else could happen in the book to string the story out a bit.

Just reading through the thread now, I get the dreams thing too, and the not being able to start a new book for a couple of days! (Though I find it almost impossible to sleep at night without having read a couple of chapters first, which is why I have to re-read the good one!)